Nesps

Nesps municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 43 ′ 41 ″ E
Height :	300-310 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	111 (Jan 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02297
	Location of Nespen in Reichshof

Nespen is one of 106 localities in the Reichshof community in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Nespen is to the east of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (15 km northwest), Cologne (64 km west) and Siegen (39 km southeast).

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1416: "Pacen von den Espen marries the Wildenburg subordinate Peter Keyser von Schönenbach."

The spelling of the first mention was aspen .

^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .